The week after Ben's parents left, we had some more Aussie visitors! Nicole and Lawrie arrived in Vancouver in mid June, and stayed with us for 6 days while they got some things sorted out for their 6 month working holiday in Canada. This included buying a van to go travelling in for a couple of months, and building a platform for a bed in the back of it. We were very impressed at how much they managed to accomplish in 6 days, since they also did some sightseeing and met many of our friends!
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| Nicole and Lawrie |
On Friday night, we went to the
Richmond Night Market, and Nicole and Lawrie met us there after they finished the day's tasks. We also met up with Meryl T, who was visiting from Australia, and Vic B. For dinner we tried out a few of the exotic food stalls - spicy fried chicken, mini teriyaki burgers, deep fried ice cream... yum!
We were amused by a huge yellow duck towering over the market... and a pool full of large, transparent, floating, person-containing spheres (similar to zorbs)! $10 a ride - what a great idea!
Below are a few phone snaps from our fun evening at the market...
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| I love this pic! |
We had some Groupons for stand-up paddle boarding that we ran out of time to use when Jim and Jenny were here, so on Saturday we used them with Nicole and Lawrie instead. I took the photos below on Nicole and Lawrie's camera as they departed from and then returned to the dock at Granville Island. Ben fell in a couple of times in the meantime, but they all had fun!
While we waited for them, Finley and I hung out in the Public Market. We ate lunch and watched part of the
16th Annual Plywood Cup, where teams of 4 have 90 minutes and a few simple materials with which to build a boat that will carry one of them across False Creek in a race.
Later, as we were all getting ready to leave Granville Island, we were unsuspectingly treated to a ride-by of participants in the World Naked Bike Ride (no photos of that...)!
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| (Nicole's photo) |
We didn't take too many other photos during Nicole and Lawrie's visit, but we also hosted a backyard potluck for our friends to meet them, went to Julia's 1st birthday party, and Ben took them to Queen Elizabeth Park to get some good views of Vancouver.
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| Vancouver, taken from Queen Elizabeth Park |
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| Mount Baker in the USA, taken from Queen Elizabeth Park |
We really enjoyed getting to know Nicole and Lawrie a little, and are looking forward to their return to Vancouver after their US travels!
2 comments:
Haha we featured in your blog! :) Feels like a long time since we were in Vancouver, have done a lot since then! I guess Finley has grown heaps and heaps? But gotten even cuter :)
I love that sillhouette photo of Finley too! And great to see Nik & Lawrie on your blog, after having read their version of these events a few weeks ago! :-)
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